Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

why was the shoemaker's kid running so hard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: be, run

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoemaker	det
4	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kid	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 shoemaker	case
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kid	acl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 running	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shoemaker's kid					why property	tree rules
2	run	gerund	the shoemaker's kid not said here					hard property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he was skipping along happy and fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skipping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skipping	aux
3	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 skipping	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skipping	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fast	cc
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past · progressive	he					along, happy property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he was running away from a bull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 running	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 running	aux
3	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 running	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bull	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bull	det
7	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past · progressive	he					from a bull; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bull=Trajectory

Option 3

he was racing his friends to the market square before the bell rang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 racing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 racing	aux
3	racing	race	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 racing	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 square	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 square	det
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 square	compound
9	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 racing	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 rang	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bell	det
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rang	nsubj
13	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 racing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	past · progressive	he	his friends		the market square			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent friend=Theme to square=Trajectory
2	ring	past	the bell						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he was skipping along happy and fast with his new shoes on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skipping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skipping	aux
3	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 skipping	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skipping	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fast	cc
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happy	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 shoes	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoes	nmod:poss
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shoes	amod
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 skipping	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	3 skipping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past · progressive	he					with his new shoes; along, happy property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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